Sand Creek Country Club, 1001 Sand Creek Drive South, will sponsor a Doggy Paddle Pool Party from noon to 4 p.m. today to benefit Porter County Animal Shelter's spay/neuter fund.

Recently, some of the kid reporters at Newsday saw the new movie Lassie and really liked it. It is about a family that owned Lassie, but because of money troubles had to sell her to a new family that lived hundreds of miles away.

AGRA Co-operative, in conjunction with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), last week held a second training course for farmworkers to teach them about livestock management and how to resolve conflict with predators.